Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Green Up Your Garden with Hostas! When you’re designing an ornamental garden, it’s important to keep a continuity of verdant texture flowing in order to tie the whole thing together. How do you keep a rich, green movement going throughout your garden that pulls everything from colorful blooms to […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Zen Home and Garden Decor: Bali Comes to Customs Imports If you find yourself hunting for zen home and garden decor in the Midwest, bear in mind that Bali, indeed, comes to Customs Imports. Every year, in fact. 2022’s massive container of merchandise from the magical island paradise hit
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Protect Your Plants from Voles and Chipmunks These adorable little vegetarian vermin can ruin an ornamental garden in record time. Perennials, annuals, bulbs, vines – you name it, they’ll obliterate it. Trust me on this one. But there’s a product you can use to ensure the safety of your
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Readers, Show Me Your Gardens!!! 2022 “Readers, Show Me Your Gardens!!! 2022” is in the books, and all of the entries are in! Readers and subscribers of The Renaissance Garden Guy who were interested in displaying their garden photos here on the site responded to the invite and provided
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Way to Prune and Deadhead Roses During the Growing Season, or, How I Beat My Rose Bushes into Submission Knowing effective ways to prune and deadhead roses during the growing season, and implementing them at the right times, guarantees you happy and healthy bushes with blooms to spare.
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Assessing Nature with a Certain Detachment, or, How I Learned to Love the Great Outdoors (Even Though I’ve Got a Wrecked Eyeball) An ocular misfortune put the brakes on my gardening efforts and landed them in the compost pile right along with my eyesight. I couldn’t tend my garden
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Readers, Show Me Your Gardens!!! Dear Readers, after a year of being forced to look at my flowers, you’re finally getting your turn. That’s right. Welcome to the entry announcement of The Renaissance Garden Guy’s first annual “Readers, Show Me Your Gardens!!!” feature. Check out the details here, and
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Train Clematis Vines to Climb: An Easy Hack Clematis vines are renowned garden climbers. But not all vertical surfaces are clematis-friendly. Know how to train your clematis vines to climb. Here are some simple techniques you can use to help these climbers get a leg up on
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Lower Soil pH for Acid-loving Plants Many types of ornamental plants require acidic soil in order to access and absorb nutrients. This quick tutorial explains how I lower soil pH for my acid-loving plants. By John G. Stamos In my last article here in The Renaissance Garden
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Fix Yellow Rhododendrons (and Azaleas and Pieris, Too) Although there could be a number of reasons why your rhodies are lying in the rough with yellow foliage, a combination of high soil pH and a lack of nutrition is a pretty good bet. Here’s how to fix
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